You know why Heavenly Sword & Lair are the most talked about? There's nothing else to talk about.

US & Japan are also extremely different markets. Japanese people eat certain series. Lair & Heavenly Sword are brand new titles. The biggest selling games for Sony in Japan have one thing in common: Square-Enix. DQ is on Wii & DS. FF is up in the air and likely will be the crappiest FF yet because for some reason it needs to be 6 games.

Why bring up Wario? I don't even think Nintendo has released a single worthwhile Wii game. Zelda was a Gamecube port. Super Paper Mario is just another branch out from the main Mario game that never achieves the must have status of the main game. For Nintendo to be selling like it has without a triple A game? That says a lot.

Their backgrounds are totally different, but they both did what was necesary to lead their respective companies into the videogame market, and in turn reinvented that market.

Yamauchi pushed Nintendo to enter what was a dead market, and to his credit, let Yokoi and Miyamoto shape the products.

Unlike Yamauchi, Kutaragi was himself a shaper of the product, but he was also the figure that pushed Sony into what was still viewed as a "fad" market and positioned the product to dethrone Nintendo.

 ummm....  they my have 13 in the names but they are all completely different. And are you failing to forget the hundreds of other games that are being released in the next two years...

http://www.ps3forums.com/showthread.php?t=57593 check this list out.. and its missing a ton of games that have been announced recently for the PSN and retail.  

And I sadly agree.. most americans have the attention-span of a fly. Thats why they like FPSs over every other genre. They dont have to use their heads, just point and shoot.